On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:32:19AM +0100, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:29:17AM +0100, lbedford at wbtsystems.com mentioned:
> > > cat file | tr -s \\n
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > cat file | sed -e 's/\n\n/\n'
> > did you try:
> > cat file | sed -e 's/\r\n/\n'
>> I did, but 'od' says that the newlines are actually \n\n - not \r\n
Weird.. what editor produced them? the normal problem is \r\n and you end
up with vim -b giving you
blah ^M
line 2^M
I assume the file you have in vi looks like
line 1
line 2
line 3
?
L.
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